And the rounds from a 20mm Vulcan travel even faster. Bigger rounds typically travel slower even while packing more energy at the target. Besides, raw muzzle velocity isn't what matters here.
Well honestly folks are forgetting about the helos. The Army has their Apaches, and the Marines have our Cobras and Hueys (newly upgraded!, fleet wide now), and to be honest, while I don't have numbers on it, my experience with them says in the past decade and a half they have done the lion's share of carrying that load.
the other problem is government, particularly military, acquisitions have changed a -LOT- since the days of the A10. while there has always been intrigue and inappropriate meddling, if were developed today, the A10 would have similar problems we see the F35, or other programs (like NASA's new projects) facing: bureaucrats and congress critters meddling, insisting on parts built in their districts, on keeping the line open to protect jobs, etc etc.
Until that gets fixed we wont be able to get back to how it seemed to be easier back then, with a much shorter time from the drawing board to operational status.
the comment about spares is spot on. as time goes on spares get fewer and fewer. the production lines are long shutdown.
spares, if they exist, are in a supply pool you can potentially order from by trading in your busted part which will then be refurbished by another maintainer in a special unit that exists for the purpose, and then put back in the supply pool. or parts are grabbed from the birds in the 'boneyard' (like at Davis Motham) where they are no longer flown, but kept (partially) for emergency (that is, they can be brought back to flight status) and (mostly) cannibalizing parts when there aren't enough in the supply pool.
the armchair quarterbacking of experts on Slashdot who have no military experience never ceases to amuse. Much like the old adage about Generals always fighting the old wars, the posters here never seem to contemplate that new tools might get used differently than the previous ones.
Long term weather trends = climate. Part of the job of climate scientists is to track those trends and point to their causes, whether it be climate change or something else. Just like your job is to post ignorant denier BS.
Hurricanes, while being a weather event, are typically of sufficient size and duration, and affect the regional (and even global) climate sufficiently, to also classify themselves as climatological events, both being caused by climate conditions, and themselves affecting those conditions.
no its not rocket science. it is however a logistical nightmare talking about the displacement of over half the world's population. this is you're not a serious contributor to these discussions.
Two words: storm surge. It's already displacing people. Every hear of Katrina? Sandy? While Katrina hit NOLA, a city more than partially below sea level and protected , making it harder to quantify how much storm surge contributed to the flooding following the collapse of the levees, with Sandy the analysis has already been done: 40%.
40% is the amount of additional damage incurred due to an increased storm surge compared to what would have occurred without that rise in sea levels. Just a few inches extra height equates to many millions of gallons of additional flooding in a storm surge event.
That combined with the fact that 2/3 of the world's population lives near the coast is why it matters, why it will causes mass displacement and trillions in property damage/loss. Not because their homes will be permanently underwater, but because of the storm events and the accompanying storm surge. Eventually people stop trying to rebuild (seen in Katrina and Sandy, who in both cases had also been hit before a few years previously to those events), and move somewhere else. IE, displacement.
More on the various forms of "we can't stop it". Of particular interest to you would apparently be the economic one, the idea that we can't stop using fossil fuel, marked with a *.
the problem with sea level rise that deniers miss (willfully ignore) isn't the (roughly) steady state level of the water (a threat, but a much more long term threat for all but the low lying island peoples).
The much more immediate short term problem is surge, both normal and storm. Particularly storm. Some places have more surge than others and will experience rising sea levels more quickly.
But everyplace is susceptible to storm surge, and rising seas make storm surge many many times more damaging and dangerous.
Already we've seen this with both Katrina and Sandy in our own country. It's been estimated that Sandy caused nearly 40% more damage that it would have without sea level rise being a factor, contributing to a much larger storm surge. Think about it: you have a massive storm front, hundreds of miles across. Just adding an inch of height to the volume of surge equates to many millions of gallons of extra volume, not to mention extra momentum, able to penetrate far futher inland. And we've seen the seas rise nearly 8 inches in the past 120 years or so. Storm surge risk evaluations, done every ten years, have been increasing. As well as the number of events and severity, and the actual damage caused.
No, they tell you that In-Person Voter Fraud is close to nonexistent, the most uncommon variety, the hardest to perform, and the least rewarding. They also tell you that In-Person Voter Fraud is the only form prevented by Voter ID laws.
And that in an effort to stop those tens of invalid in-person votes per year on a national scale, the trade off is disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters nationwide. Voters who are overwhelming tend to be poor/minority/democratic voters. There are still several other forms of fraud that are easier to perform, and much more affecting of the outcome of an election, which Voter ID does nothing about.
(sorry my dear MRA who got mod points, you cant bury uncomfortable truths)
Literally the exact opposite of the facts. From the previous story, linked in the summary:
Last year, the Hugo Awards went to mostly minorities and women. In response, a fan group decided to fight back against what they saw as a liberal attack on their medium.
Because the Hugos went to mostly minorities and women a bunch of white males felt attacked. Note that is text book bigotry, the combined assumptions that: A) minorities and women could not and would not have won on their own merits, and a B) that minorities and women winning something constitutes an attack (not too dissimilar from Christians who think that if they aren't allowed to attack and discriminate then they are themselves the victims of attacks and discrimination)
So these MRAs, because that's what they were, abused the nomination process to flood it with their non-minority non-female nominees, thus poisoning the well.
These were not nominees chosen for their quality or their contribution, but as retaliation against women and minorities winning an award, by attempting to prevent them winning any again awards this year.
See? This right here is yet another textbook example of just what is wrong with these idiots, starting from the assumption that they only got the awards because of who they are, not what they wrote.
Literally the exact opposite of the facts. From the previous story:
Last year, the Hugo Awards went to mostly minorities and women. In response, a fan group decided to fight back against what they saw as a liberal attack on their medium.
Because the Hugos went to mostly minorities and women a bunch of white males felt attacked. Note that is text book bigotry, the combined assumptions that: A) minorities and women could not and would not have won on their own merits, and a B) that minorities and women winning something constitutes an attack (not too dissimilar from Christians who think that if they aren't allowed to attack and discriminate then they are themselves the victims of attacks and discrimination)
So these MRAs, because that's what they were, abused the nomination process to flood it with their non-minority non-female nominees, thus poisoning the well.
These were not nominees chosen for their quality or their contribution, but as retaliation against women and minorities winning an award, by attempting to prevent them winning any again awards this year.
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I dearly hope that is simply an impression of a RWNJ.
Cause if serious, that is one of the most delusional posts I've read today.
There should be an insanity mod, because your post is in woeful need of it.
And the rounds from a 20mm Vulcan travel even faster.
Bigger rounds typically travel slower even while packing more energy at the target.
Besides, raw muzzle velocity isn't what matters here.
Well honestly folks are forgetting about the helos. The Army has their Apaches, and the Marines have our Cobras and Hueys (newly upgraded!, fleet wide now), and to be honest, while I don't have numbers on it, my experience with them says in the past decade and a half they have done the lion's share of carrying that load.
the other problem is government, particularly military, acquisitions have changed a -LOT- since the days of the A10.
while there has always been intrigue and inappropriate meddling, if were developed today, the A10 would have similar problems we see the F35, or other programs (like NASA's new projects) facing: bureaucrats and congress critters meddling, insisting on parts built in their districts, on keeping the line open to protect jobs, etc etc.
Until that gets fixed we wont be able to get back to how it seemed to be easier back then, with a much shorter time from the drawing board to operational status.
the comment about spares is spot on.
as time goes on spares get fewer and fewer.
the production lines are long shutdown.
spares, if they exist, are in a supply pool you can potentially order from by trading in your busted part which will then be refurbished by another maintainer in a special unit that exists for the purpose, and then put back in the supply pool. or parts are grabbed from the birds in the 'boneyard' (like at Davis Motham) where they are no longer flown, but kept (partially) for emergency (that is, they can be brought back to flight status) and (mostly) cannibalizing parts when there aren't enough in the supply pool.
This.
the armchair quarterbacking of experts on Slashdot who have no military experience never ceases to amuse. Much like the old adage about Generals always fighting the old wars, the posters here never seem to contemplate that new tools might get used differently than the previous ones.
Also known as the "Bobby did it too!" defense.
Long term weather trends = climate.
Part of the job of climate scientists is to track those trends and point to their causes, whether it be climate change or something else.
Just like your job is to post ignorant denier BS.
Hurricanes, while being a weather event, are typically of sufficient size and duration, and affect the regional (and even global) climate sufficiently, to also classify themselves as climatological events, both being caused by climate conditions, and themselves affecting those conditions.
Educate thy self troll:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08...
He's one of best President we ever had, who has never gotten enough credit because of the charlatan that followed him.
"just move 4 billion people"
no its not rocket science.
it is however a logistical nightmare talking about the displacement of over half the world's population.
this is you're not a serious contributor to these discussions.
nope. not flamebait
so we're back the Catch22 of you can't prove standing because its classified, and because it's classified, we can't tell you if you were targeted.
Storm surge.
educate thyself: http://climatecommission.angry...
Two words: storm surge.
It's already displacing people.
Every hear of Katrina? Sandy?
While Katrina hit NOLA, a city more than partially below sea level and protected , making it harder to quantify how much storm surge contributed to the flooding following the collapse of the levees, with Sandy the analysis has already been done: 40%.
40% is the amount of additional damage incurred due to an increased storm surge compared to what would have occurred without that rise in sea levels. Just a few inches extra height equates to many millions of gallons of additional flooding in a storm surge event.
That combined with the fact that 2/3 of the world's population lives near the coast is why it matters, why it will causes mass displacement and trillions in property damage/loss. Not because their homes will be permanently underwater, but because of the storm events and the accompanying storm surge. Eventually people stop trying to rebuild (seen in Katrina and Sandy, who in both cases had also been hit before a few years previously to those events), and move somewhere else. IE, displacement.
More on the various forms of "we can't stop it".
Of particular interest to you would apparently be the economic one, the idea that we can't stop using fossil fuel, marked with a *.
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
* http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
Bingo. Mod up.
the problem with sea level rise that deniers miss (willfully ignore) isn't the (roughly) steady state level of the water (a threat, but a much more long term threat for all but the low lying island peoples).
The much more immediate short term problem is surge, both normal and storm. Particularly storm.
Some places have more surge than others and will experience rising sea levels more quickly.
But everyplace is susceptible to storm surge, and rising seas make storm surge many many times more damaging and dangerous.
Already we've seen this with both Katrina and Sandy in our own country. It's been estimated that Sandy caused nearly 40% more damage that it would have without sea level rise being a factor, contributing to a much larger storm surge. Think about it: you have a massive storm front, hundreds of miles across. Just adding an inch of height to the volume of surge equates to many millions of gallons of extra volume, not to mention extra momentum, able to penetrate far futher inland. And we've seen the seas rise nearly 8 inches in the past 120 years or so. Storm surge risk evaluations, done every ten years, have been increasing. As well as the number of events and severity, and the actual damage caused.
These images describe quite well, what we are already seeing happen:
http://climatecommission.angry...
http://ian.umces.edu/imagelibr...
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/de...
It's because we've been told over and over by leftists
No you haven't.
No, they tell you that In-Person Voter Fraud is close to nonexistent, the most uncommon variety, the hardest to perform, and the least rewarding.
They also tell you that In-Person Voter Fraud is the only form prevented by Voter ID laws.
And that in an effort to stop those tens of invalid in-person votes per year on a national scale, the trade off is disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters nationwide. Voters who are overwhelming tend to be poor/minority/democratic voters. There are still several other forms of fraud that are easier to perform, and much more affecting of the outcome of an election, which Voter ID does nothing about.
Do try to learn about the topic before speaking.
(sorry my dear MRA who got mod points, you cant bury uncomfortable truths)
Literally the exact opposite of the facts.
From the previous story, linked in the summary:
Last year, the Hugo Awards went to mostly minorities and women. In response, a fan group decided to fight back against what they saw as a liberal attack on their medium.
Because the Hugos went to mostly minorities and women a bunch of white males felt attacked. Note that is text book bigotry, the combined assumptions that: A) minorities and women could not and would not have won on their own merits, and a B) that minorities and women winning something constitutes an attack
(not too dissimilar from Christians who think that if they aren't allowed to attack and discriminate then they are themselves the victims of attacks and discrimination)
So these MRAs, because that's what they were, abused the nomination process to flood it with their non-minority non-female nominees, thus poisoning the well.
These were not nominees chosen for their quality or their contribution, but as retaliation against women and minorities winning an award, by attempting to prevent them winning any again awards this year.
So bugger off sewer troll.
See? This right here is yet another textbook example of just what is wrong with these idiots, starting from the assumption that they only got the awards because of who they are, not what they wrote.
Good primer on the "men's rights movement": http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/M...
someone mod up to undo the MRA troll that apparently has mod points today
Literally the exact opposite of the facts.
From the previous story:
Last year, the Hugo Awards went to mostly minorities and women. In response, a fan group decided to fight back against what they saw as a liberal attack on their medium.
Because the Hugos went to mostly minorities and women a bunch of white males felt attacked. Note that is text book bigotry, the combined assumptions that: A) minorities and women could not and would not have won on their own merits, and a B) that minorities and women winning something constitutes an attack
(not too dissimilar from Christians who think that if they aren't allowed to attack and discriminate then they are themselves the victims of attacks and discrimination)
So these MRAs, because that's what they were, abused the nomination process to flood it with their non-minority non-female nominees, thus poisoning the well.
These were not nominees chosen for their quality or their contribution, but as retaliation against women and minorities winning an award, by attempting to prevent them winning any again awards this year.
So bugger off sewer troll.
because Breitbart totally isn't a 'news' source that engages in bad reporting to push an agenda, and then blames others when called on it...